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1358216 2013-10-29 23:40:00 So would you say that out of FF and Chrome on Windows 8.1, Chrome runs better?

I've also looked around and there seems to be a lot of reports of the 8.1 upgrade causing some issues. I'm guessing Windows 8 was better before the upgrade?

FF was the choice b4 upgrade. OK then.
garyasta (1151)
1358217 2013-10-29 23:51:00 Just checked the Mozilla support forums...
support.mozilla.org
Webdevguy (17166)
1358218 2013-10-30 00:18:00 Chrome is working OK with win8.1 as is IE.
Win8 was OK b4 upgrade.
garyasta (1151)
1358219 2013-10-30 00:27:00 So from that I take it that Firefox is crap after the upgrade.. and everything else is pretty much fine, and you want to keep using Firefox rather than change to Chrome? Webdevguy (17166)
1358220 2013-10-30 00:33:00 Since upgrading to Windows 8.1 (possibly not related to the upgrade), I have been having webpage problems. Adobe Flash regularly crashes.

When loading a page, I appear to have periods when the cursor becomes unresponsive and the page freezes. There are usually multiple links and images in the pages.

The freezing can occur after the main part of the page has loaded and sometimes after the page has loaded (may be more links or images loading).

Sometimes while scrolling down a page I get black sections (maybe half the page) that last for a few seconds before displaying correctly.

I have up-to-date flash player (11.9.900.117) as well as java-script. I have also checked my Vipre Internet Security by disabling it and the problem persists.

Anyone any suggestions?

Similar problems here Gary. IE Explorer 11 Win 8.1. Most sites load without problem but some give an "Explorer cannot load this page check your connection " error message. Resetting IE Explorer fixes it for a while but the problem returns after a while. Disabling Enhanced Protected Mode as per support.microsoft.com appears to improve it.(yes I know that article is about IE10 & Windows 8 and earlier). I am also finding some pictures blocked on some sites. Needless to say I shall be keeping an eye on this subject.
My system ran without problem on win 8. It appears 8.1 may have introduced some compatibility/security problems.
CliveM (6007)
1358221 2013-10-30 00:36:00 Cyberfox is fine here. It uses FF code. Don't know if it's because I did a clean install of 8.1. I didn't upgrade from Win8 Speedy Gonzales (78)
1358222 2013-10-30 01:34:00 Was going to do a Clean Reinstall but the FF download page went ahead and downloaded a V25.0 upgrade (a couple of days ago when I checked it was still v24.0). After installation things seem to be OK. Here's Hoping!

I can even watch imbedded videos.

Thanks for your input.

Cheers
Gary
garyasta (1151)
1358223 2013-10-30 02:53:00 Thanks for that Gary. FF 25 appears to be working well for me also, pages that gave problems with IE11 and Chrome are all behaving with FF :). CliveM (6007)
1358224 2013-10-30 03:29:00 Most things are back to normal, but I am still getting a few webpages that will produce part of the page showing black for a short period. garyasta (1151)
1358225 2013-11-08 04:38:00 FWIIW If I press F12 and set IE11 to emulate IE10 pages that gave problems then load fine using IE on my system.
I have no problems at all when using FF25 which is now my default browser.
CliveM (6007)
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